This Ash Wednesday, we join in prayer with the tens of millions of American Catholics and other Christians beginning the holy ...

S. Eliot poem “The Waste Land” that may evoke the Book of Genesis. It certainly captures the message of Ash Wednesday. Published in 1922, Eliot’s modernist poem laments the spiritual poverty ...

Ash Wednesday, also known as the Day of Ashes ... while also looking forward in greater anticipation and joy to the message of Easter and Christ’s ultimate victory over sin and death ...

Ash Wednesday is on March 5 ... solemnly while also looking forward in greater anticipation and joy to the message of Easter and Christ’s ultimate victory over sin and death,” according ...

Ash Wednesday is March 5, which marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of repentance, fasting and prayer. Many worshipers will receive the marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads on ...

Ash Wednesday is Wednesday, March 5. It is the first day of Lent, a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving. On Ash Wednesday, priests place ash crosses on worshipers' foreheads to indicate ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for people of Christian faith. Each year, Catholics, Lutherans and other denominations around the world observe the 40-day period of self-sacrifice and ...

A Hillcrest church is hoping to spread a message of unity and inclusivity this Ash Wednesday, by showing solidarity with immigrants. Wednesday morning, members of University Christian Church ...

Trisna Tan prayed along with hundreds who attended a 2019 Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Dallas. Update: 5:03 p.m. March 4, 2025: This story was updated ...